Snyder County [Pennsylvania] Pioneers


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Here is an essential guide to the formation and historical highlights of 100 Tennessee counties in existence at the time of the work's original publication in 1923. Each essay gives the county's date of formation, the names of all parent counties, the names of some of its earliest pioneers and landowners, the dates its courts were organized, locations of county seats, and additional information on each county's topography and economy.




The Wagner and Battin Families


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Ludwig (Louis) Wilhelm (William) Wagner (1841-1896), the immigrant, was born in Gronau, Württemberg, Germany, a son of Ludwig Wagner and Catharina Barbara Friedhofer. He married 1870 in Philadelphia, Pa., Catherine Elizabeth Kohs (1850-1917), daughter of Charles (Karl) Kohs and Katherin Elizabeth Betz. She was born in Baden, Germany. Both died in Kansas. They were parents of five children born in Philadelphia, Pa. and Turon, Kansas. Ludwig Wilhelm Wagner came to America ca. 1866. The Battin family from England to Chester Co., Pennsylvania. John Battin (1681- 17213), was born in Berkshire Co., England and died in Chester Co., Pa. He married ca. 1712 Elizabeth Deacon (ca. 1692-1777). They had seven children, oldest born in Ardington Parish, Berkshire, England and the rest in Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Descendants live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Colorado and elsewhere.




A Genealogy and History of the Kauffman-Coffman Families of North America, 1584 to 1937


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Andrew (Andreas) Kauffman (d.1743) migrated from Switzerland to the Palatinate of Germany, and then immigrated via Rotterdam to Philadelphia in 1717. He married twice and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere. Includes " ... miscellaneous lines of Kauffmans scattered throughout the country ... "










Our Keystone Families


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